In this Tuesday, Oct., 31, 2017 photo, U.S. Marine Gunnery Sgt. Joseph A. Felix, his wife, and his lawyers exit a courtroom after testimony at Camp Lejeune, N.C.

A Marine Corps drill instructor investigated after one of his trainees committed suicide was a “bully” who called Muslim volunteers “terrorists” in his ongoing targeted abuse, according to a military prosecutor.

Eyewitnesses during a court-martial on Wednesday testified they saw Gunnery Sgt. Joseph Felix punch recruits in the face while he hit others with a rifle — often times while he was drunk, NBC News reported.

Felix did not testify, but his chief defense attorney, Navy Lt. Cmdr. Daniel Bridges pushed back against the allegations, claiming witnesses for the prosecution gave contradicting and exaggerated accounts, including one in which Felix allegedly grabbed a recruit and lifted him off the ground by the neck.

“He was drunk on power and sometimes on Fireball Whiskey, and he abused that power again and again,” Lt. Col. John Norman argued during his closing remarks. “He abused his power to abuse his recruits. He punched them. He kicked them. He degraded their religion, and he put them in industrial appliances.”

Lance Cpl. Ameer Bourmeche said the dryer was running at the time and that Felix demanded he renounce his Islamic faith, according to NBC. Each time Bourmeche told Felix he was a Muslim, the Sergeant would force him back into the machine.

Raheel Siddiqui, a Pakistani-American from Michigan, died by suicide in March 2016. Gunnery Sgt. Joseph Felix of the United States Marines allegedly drove Siddiqui to suicide through bullying and torment, including targeting the recruit because he was Muslim.

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The third time, Bourmeche testified that he renounced his religion out of fear for his life and Felix finally let him out of the dryer.

A forensic pathologist at East Carolina’s medical school on Wednesday testified the recruit would have been fatally burned had the dryer been warmed to its normal setting.